Well, Understand OS Virtualization, Vmware would like to introduce you to Thinstall Application Virtualization!
Now Help Desk and IT Managers can now deploy application securely and without installation to desktops across the enterprise. Not only does this make deployment easy it also makes an executable of a virtual application that can be streamed across the network.
This makes perfect sense for Vmware as Vmware is available for Linux, Unix, MAC Os/x and Windows. Now a Windows Executable can run on any platform.
IT Managers remember the day when you went to deploy a network executable that was open by a user and Windows said that there is a sharing violation? Well now all you need to do is create a new virtualized application executable and name it with a .1, .2, .etc and put it in the same directory as the original executable and you are done. The next time the executable is run it will be the new version and it will keep all the original settings set by the individual user.
Awesome Idea and interesting technology. Now we will have to see what Vmware does with it next. This could be a possible solution to replace the need for CITRIX or Terminal Server Environment.
Check it out here http://www.vmware.com/whatsnew/thinstall.html#
